A Christmas Carol
Three ghosts, one night, and the most efficient character arc ever written. Done before dinner.
- Listening time
- about 3 h 06 min
- Length
- 28,533 words
- First published
- 1843
- Public domain
- the author died in 1870
- Edition
- Edition and cover by Standard Ebooks, released CC0
- Download in the app
- 162 KB stored on your device
- Language
- English
- Shelf
- Under Four Hours
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How it begins.
Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it. And Scrooge’s name was good upon ’Change for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don’t mean to say that I know of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade.
A Christmas Carol · Charles Dickens · 1843
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